Materials After Installing Maintenance Release
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After loading the maintenance release, I lost textures I'd added to the default categories. How do I keep that from happening with the next maintenance release?
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Don't add textures to the default folders. Instead create new local collections for the materials you add. Put them someplace where they won't be impacted by updated SketchUp. (maybe in the Documents folder or somewhere else) This will also make them available when you update to the next SketchUp version.
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on the 'other forum' I did say...
@unknownuser said:
User files will remain intact...
on a mac, this means keeping them in your User Library SketchUp Folder if you want them available every time SU starts...
there are lots of threads on how to Make or Find this 'Materials' folder...
it is never over-written, and will only disappear if you remove it...
anything you put 'inside' the app will be removed every time the app is modified...
john
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Thanks, Dave and John. Your responses will get me to organize my textures differently. Seems to me it might be best to create my own textures in categories similar to the default ones and just never use the default ones at all. Does that make sense? And if there's a follow-up, should I be moving this discussion to a new topic? I'm still not all that sure of forum protocol.
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re the thread, it's your thread I'd say edit the Title to 'mac materials v16' or similar and carry on...
You may as well leave the defaults alone, there are some good materials...
in the [user] Materials folder you create sub-folders that contain .skm files...
unless at that level you will not see them in SU on a mac... [ I think you can have nesting on a PC ]
So you create your own sets and name the folders with an identifier lf_bricks, lf_carpets, lf_etc...
you'll notice any forum sets folders are suc-mat_type and then inside the folders the .skm name are also tagged...
it comes in handy to have easy to follow/find naming conventions, particularly when exporting/rendering...
john
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Thank you, John, for your help. I will immediately put your naming-convention suggestion to use.
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